A/C Institute Gallery Opening | Thursday | October 13, 2011
6:00pm - 8:00pm | General Opening
Conference Artist Talks and Kick-off Reception | Friday | October 14, 2011
6:00pm - 7:30pm | Artist Talks
Moderator: Robert Harvey | Professor | Comparative Literature
Presentations by John Gourley, Mauricio Herrero, Anna Kell + Jon Frey, Nobi Nagasawa
7:30 - 8:30 | Kick-off Reception
Moderator: Robert Harvey | Professor | Comparative Literature
Presentations by John Gourley, Mauricio Herrero, Anna Kell + Jon Frey, Nobi Nagasawa
7:30 - 8:30 | Kick-off Reception
All-Day Conference | Saturday | October 15, 2011
8:15am - 9:15am | Welcome Breakfast + Registration
Light pastries, fruit salad, juice and coffee will be provided.
9:15am - 10:40am | Grids and Gridlock in Contemporary Art
Moderator: Megan Craig | Assistant Professor | Department of Philosophy
Tracing the Horizontal and the Vertical in Agnes Martin's Paintings, Prints, and Film
Berit Potter | New York University | Institute of Fine Arts
Whose Radical Practice? Unlocking the History of Artist-Educators and the Recent Pedagogical Turn in Contemporary Art
Michelle Jubin | CUNY Graduate Center | Department of Art History
Traveling Indexicality: The Auto-Centric Photography of Ed Ruscha and William Eggleston
David Smucker | Stony Brook University | Department of Art
10:50am - 12:30pm | The Technologies, Politics, and Poetics of Gridlock
Moderator: Lisa Diedrich | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Co-opting Individuality, Aestheticizing Responsibility: A Poetics of Starbucks
Darla Migan | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
The Triumph of the Individual within the Failure of the Political: Towards a ‘Post-Political’ Reading of J.M. Coetzee, Pat Barker, and Don DeLillo
Yoav Fromer | New School for Social Research | Politics Department
Stretching the Stutter: Towards the Unmeaning of Language
Erin Mizrahi | University of Southern California | Department of Comparative Literature
Database Normalization: Technologies of Self-Storage
Rory Solomon | New School for General Studies | Department of Media Studies
12:30pm - 2:10 | Lunch Break
A list of local restaurants will be provided.
2:10pm - 3:30pm | "Reading" the Grid
Moderator: E.K. Tan | Assistant Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
'A Manhattan of Your Own Devising': Strategies for Repurposing Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City
Nathan Mickelson | CUNY Graduate Center | Department of English
The Paradox of Feminist Orientalism: Unlocking the Occidental Imagination
Brandi So | Stony Brook University | Department of English
Getting Off The Grid: ‘Unhoming’ and the Space of Critique in the Novels of W.G. Sebald
Aengus Woods | New School for Social Research | Department of Philosophy
3:40pm - 5:20pm | The Grided Globe, Urban Gridlock
Moderator: Raiford Guins | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Highgate Cemetery: Providing Eternal Rest and Rational Recreation
Marisa Balsamo | Stony Brook University | History
Distributed Intelligence, Dispersed Power: Experiments on the Azorean Electric Grid
Canay Ozden | MIT | Department of History, Anthropology, and Science
A New Model for Postmodern Urbanism
Brian Irwin | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
High-Speed Collisions: Grand Army Plaza and Conflicting Urban Mobilities
Meg Rooney | New York University | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
5:45pm - 7:00pm | Keynote Address
Frozen Thought; or, the Horror of Philosophy
Eugene Thacker | The New School | Department of Media Studies
Keynote Introduction by Andrew Uroskie | Assistant Professor | Department of Art
Introductory Remarks by Laine Nooney
7:00pm - 8:30pm | Reception
Light pastries, fruit salad, juice and coffee will be provided.
9:15am - 10:40am | Grids and Gridlock in Contemporary Art
Moderator: Megan Craig | Assistant Professor | Department of Philosophy
Tracing the Horizontal and the Vertical in Agnes Martin's Paintings, Prints, and Film
Berit Potter | New York University | Institute of Fine Arts
Whose Radical Practice? Unlocking the History of Artist-Educators and the Recent Pedagogical Turn in Contemporary Art
Michelle Jubin | CUNY Graduate Center | Department of Art History
Traveling Indexicality: The Auto-Centric Photography of Ed Ruscha and William Eggleston
David Smucker | Stony Brook University | Department of Art
10:50am - 12:30pm | The Technologies, Politics, and Poetics of Gridlock
Moderator: Lisa Diedrich | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Co-opting Individuality, Aestheticizing Responsibility: A Poetics of Starbucks
Darla Migan | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
The Triumph of the Individual within the Failure of the Political: Towards a ‘Post-Political’ Reading of J.M. Coetzee, Pat Barker, and Don DeLillo
Yoav Fromer | New School for Social Research | Politics Department
Stretching the Stutter: Towards the Unmeaning of Language
Erin Mizrahi | University of Southern California | Department of Comparative Literature
Database Normalization: Technologies of Self-Storage
Rory Solomon | New School for General Studies | Department of Media Studies
12:30pm - 2:10 | Lunch Break
A list of local restaurants will be provided.
2:10pm - 3:30pm | "Reading" the Grid
Moderator: E.K. Tan | Assistant Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
'A Manhattan of Your Own Devising': Strategies for Repurposing Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City
Nathan Mickelson | CUNY Graduate Center | Department of English
The Paradox of Feminist Orientalism: Unlocking the Occidental Imagination
Brandi So | Stony Brook University | Department of English
Getting Off The Grid: ‘Unhoming’ and the Space of Critique in the Novels of W.G. Sebald
Aengus Woods | New School for Social Research | Department of Philosophy
3:40pm - 5:20pm | The Grided Globe, Urban Gridlock
Moderator: Raiford Guins | Associate Professor | Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Highgate Cemetery: Providing Eternal Rest and Rational Recreation
Marisa Balsamo | Stony Brook University | History
Distributed Intelligence, Dispersed Power: Experiments on the Azorean Electric Grid
Canay Ozden | MIT | Department of History, Anthropology, and Science
A New Model for Postmodern Urbanism
Brian Irwin | Stony Brook University | Department of Philosophy
High-Speed Collisions: Grand Army Plaza and Conflicting Urban Mobilities
Meg Rooney | New York University | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
5:45pm - 7:00pm | Keynote Address
Frozen Thought; or, the Horror of Philosophy
Eugene Thacker | The New School | Department of Media Studies
Keynote Introduction by Andrew Uroskie | Assistant Professor | Department of Art
Introductory Remarks by Laine Nooney
7:00pm - 8:30pm | Reception
